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to sucli botanists as the late Dr. Steudel, it would have been impos- 

 sible to Identify them without such an inspection of authentic speci- 

 mens. This herbarium contains also several authentic specimens of 

 Labillardiere and some other French botanists, and often also several 

 of the plants sent over by Dr. F. Mueller, of which he himself had kept 

 fragments only or nothing at all, I find also specimens authentically 

 named by Steetz, Bartling, Schlechtendal, and other German botanists. 

 Thanks to the liberality with which the late P. B, AYebb distributed 

 his duplicates, I have seen in various herbaria the majority of Labil- 

 xarbiere's plants ; but as there were several others, described in the 

 first volume of De Candollo's ' Prodromus ' and other works, from the 

 herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes, about which I liad some doubts, I 

 paid a A*isit, in January last, to Paris, where I met, as usual, with every 

 attention on the part of the gentlemen connected with the establishment. 

 I there verified these doubtful species up to the end of Hu/acecd, which 

 I had then completed, and since then, my friend M. A. BRoyGMAUX, as 

 the head of the botanical department of the museum, has most obli- 

 gingly transmitted to me notes and flowers for examination of a few 

 species belonging to the subsequent Orders. 



the origi/ials of the species described in Barctk 

 Hl'egel's 'Enumeratio Plantarum' and other works, published at 

 Vienna, I M"as enabled to bring over with me specimens of several, 

 especially of those which I had myself described, and I liave identified 



many^ others by^ means of specimens compared with the Vienna types. 

 Those published from P. Bauer's collections occur necessarily also in 

 a. Brown's herbarium ; and when I have had any doubts as to any of 

 the remaining ones, they have been cleared up by full notes communi- 

 cated to me by my friend Dr. Fenzl, Director of the Imperial Garden 

 and Herbarium. 



There remains for me to mention the very essential assistance received 

 from the distinguished Government Botanist of Victoria, Dr. Ferdi- 

 i^AXD Mueller. His extensive jourueys and important labours during 

 the first ten years of his residence in Australia, have been adverted to 

 by Dr. Hooker in the above-mentioned E:>say". Since that time, his 

 botanical explorations have been chiefly in the Victorian mountains and 

 in the neighbourhood of Twofold Bay, and Cape Otway, whilst his zeal, 

 talent, and indefatigable industry have been still more fully exemplified 

 in the various publications whicl) have issued from the Melbourne press, 

 Kot to mention minor papers or reports on expeditions, we have a first 

 volume of an elaborate illustrated quarto Flora of Victoria, under the title 



With regard to 



